In Bed With an Elephant

Director Kent Martin
Year 1987
Run Time 60min
Genre Documentary
This feature documentary provides a gripping retrospective of United States-Canada relationships through a study of successive presidents and prime ministers. 

Director

Kent Martin

Cast

James Laxer

Producer

John Taylor

Genre

Documentary

Interests

History, Social Justice & Politics

Original Language

English

The Track

Director Ryan Sidhoo
Year 2025
Run Time 90min
Genre Documentary
A coming-of-age journey following three friends going for gold in post-war Bosnia while training on their destroyed luge track from the 1984 Sarajevo Winter Games.
 

Director

Ryan Sidhoo

Cast

Zlatan Jakic, Mirza Nikolajev, Senad Omanovic

Producers

Jasmina Djikoli, Ervin Golubovic

Genre

Documentary

Interests

History, Social Justice & Politics, Sports

Original Language

English

Tootoo

Director Michael Hamilton
Year 2024
Run Time 90min
Genre Documentary
Tootoo follows Jordin Tootoo as he delves into international stardom, tragic personal loss, and addiction.
 

Director

Michael Hamilton

Writers

Michael Hamilton, Scott Dodds

Cast

Barry Trotz, Scottie Upshall, Brian McGrattan

Producer

Adam Scorgie

Genre

Documentary

Original Language

English

La Région Centrale (The Central Region)

Director Michael Snow
Year 1971
Run Time 180min
Genre Documentary
One of most influential films in avant-garde cinema, this experimental film by Michael Snow was shot over a period of 24 hours using a robotic arm, and consists entirely of preprogrammed movements. Snow programmed all the robotic movements so that they never moved the same way twice, so there are differences in every motion of the camera.

Director

Michael Snow

Genre

Documentary

Interest

Environment

Original Language

French

Language Version

EN Subtitles

The Pitch

Director Michele Hozer
Year 2025
Run Time 99min
Genre Documentary
When Diana Matheson retires from the game she helped define, she takes on her biggest challenge yet: building Canada’s first women’s professional soccer league — and shaking up a system that has sidelined women for decades.

Director

Michele Hozer

Cast

Diana Matheson, Christine Sinclair, Erin McLeod

Producer

Bryn Hughes

Genre

Documentary

Interests

Female Filmmaker, Sports, Strong Female Leads

Original Language

English

Language Version

EN Subtitles

  • Own Voice

Ni-Naadamaadiz: Red Power Rising

Director Shane Belcourt (Métis)
Year 2025
Run Time 90min
Genre Documentary
This stirring historical film depicts a 1974 Indigenous youth occupation in Kenora, focusing on Louie Cameron: the leader of the Ojibway Warrior Society.

Director

Shane Belcourt (Métis)

Belcourt is a producer, writer, and filmmaker whose directing credits include numerous shorts such as Pookums, Boxed In, and Say Yes, as well as the features Tkaronto, Indictment: The Crimes of Shelly Chartier (which won the Alanis Obomsawin Award at imagineNATIVE), Red Rover, Beautiful Scars of Tom Wilson, Warrior Song and Ni Naadamaadiz: Red Power Rising, which premiered at TIFF. He also directed episodes of Urban Native Girl, CBC Docs POV, and Amplify.

Writers

Shane Belcourt (Métis), Tanya Talaga (Anishinaabe)

Genre

Documentary

Interests

Biography, History, Indigenous Filmmaker

Original Language

English

Ciclo

Director Andrea Martínez Crowther
Year 2013
Run Time 92min
Genre Documentary
In 1956 brothers Arturo and Gustavo Martinez made a bicycle trip from Mexico City to Toronto. They were the first to accomplish this feat, and it changed their lives forever. Fifty three years later these two men, now 75 and 78, drive along the exact same route followed by a small film crew. 

Director

Andrea Martínez Crowther

Cast

Gustavo Martinez, Arturo Martínez

Producer

Ana Villegas

Genre

Documentary

Interests

BIPOC Stories, Female Filmmaker, History, Sports

Original Language

Other Language

Language Version

EN Subtitles

Parade: Queer Acts of Love & Resistance

Director Noam Gonick
Year 2025
Run Time 97min
Genre Documentary
Through rarely seen archival footage and first-person accounts, Parade brings to life pivotal moments that sparked Canada's 2SLGBTQ+ movement, honouring the activists and elders whose resistance led to the rights we have today.

Director

Noam Gonick

Cast

Alexander Chapman, Tim McCaskell

Producer

Chanda Chevannes

Genre

Documentary

Interest

LGBTQ2S+

Original Language

English

Language Versions

EN CC, EN Subtitles

We Lend a Hand

Director Colin Field
Year 2025
Run Time 49min
Genre Documentary
We Lend a Hand: The Forgotten Story of Ontario Farmerettes is a documentary film that tells the extraordinary story of 40,000 teenage girls who volunteered on Canadian farms and helped win the Second World War.
 

Director

Colin Field

Writer

Felipe Giaj-Levra

Genre

Documentary

Interests

Biography, Environment, History, Strong Female Leads

Original Language

English

Language Version

EN Subtitles

4 or 5 things I want you to know about me (An Essay)

Director Carl Bessai
Year 2026
Run Time 71min
Genre Documentary, Drama
Carl Bessai's playful Godardian riff on actors and acting gives us a portfolio of dramatic portraits and monologues focused on half a dozen female performers at different points in their journey. It's a grab-bag of a film, sparky and specific.

Director

Carl Bessai

Cast

Vincent Gale, Lauren Akemi Bradley

Producer

Laura Lightbown

Genres

Documentary, Drama

Interests

Global Experiences, Social Justice & Politics

Original Language

English

Barbaracadabra

Directors Renaud Lessard, Barbara Ulrich
Year 2025
Run Time 82min
Genre Documentary
As the star of Gilles Groulx’s Le chat dans le sac (1964), Barbara Ulrich epitomized a new sense of youthful vitality and freedom then emerging not only in Quebec’s cinema, but in its society at large. Sixty years later, Ulrich joined filmmaker Renaud Lessard for a cinematic experiment, one that provided her with the means to overcome her fears and define herself on her own terms.

Directors

Renaud Lessard, Barbara Ulrich

Writers

Barbara Ulrich, Renaud Lessard

Cast

Barbara Ulrich

Genre

Documentary

Interests

Arts and Culture, Strong Female Leads

Original Language

French

Language Version

EN Subtitles

  • Own Voice

Siksikakowan: The Blackfoot Man

Director Sinakson Trevor Solway (Blackfoot)
Year 2025
Run Time 77min
Genre Documentary
With tenderness and grace, filmmaker Sinakson, Trevor Solway, offers an intimate exploration of Indigenous masculinity rarely seen on screen.

Director

Sinakson Trevor Solway (Blackfoot)

Writer

Sinakson Trevor Solway (Blackfoot)

Genre

Documentary

Interests

BIPOC Stories, Indigenous Filmmaker

Original Language

English

The Art of Adventure

Director Alison Reid
Year 2025
Run Time 90min
Genre Documentary
In 1957, world renowned wildlife artist Robert Bateman and spirited biologist Bristol Foster embarked on a global expedition in a Land Rover they called “The Grizzly Torque” - a journey that ignited a deep love of our planet and set in motion a powerful story of environmental activism though art and science.
 

Director

Alison Reid

Cast

David Suzuki, Tara Cullis, Wade Davis

Producer

Nina Beveridge

Genre

Documentary

Interest

Environment

Original Language

English

Canada’s Steel City – Ojibway

Director Walter Petrichyn
Year 2025
Run Time 26min
Genre Documentary
An archival short film that uses newspaper articles, film footage obtained from Library and Archives Canada, historical images and animated maps to tell the story about the former steel town of Ojibway, Ontario (now part of the City of Windsor).

Director

Walter Petrichyn

Genre

Documentary

Original Language

English

The Espanglish Generation

Director Oscar Vigil
Year 2024
Run Time 40min
Genre Documentary

The Espanglish Generation is a compelling full-length documentary that captures the essence of what it means to be a Canadian/Latin American born after 1990. This generation, fondly referred to as “Espanglish,” navigates the rich, complex tapestry of dual heritage, interweaving the vibrant cultures of their Latin roots with their Canadian upbringing.

Director

Oscar Vigil

Producers

Jonathan Smith, Jonathan Smith, Sergio Lasky

Genre

Documentary

Original Languages

English, Other Language

Language Version

Other Subtitles

Beethoven’s Nine: Ode to Humanity

Director Larry Weinstein
Year 2024
Run Time 85min
Genre Documentary
When unexpected events pull director Larry Weinstein into his documentary about Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, his film about war, hope and music’s relevance to our society becomes a deeply personal exploration.
 

Director

Larry Weinstein

Weinstein has received three Gemini awards for his work, including Best Direction for Beethoven’s Hair. Weinstein also directed the docs Mulroney: The Opera, The Devil’s Horn, Leslie Caron: The Reluctant Star, and Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas, and co-directed Our Man In Tehran. His latest, Propaganda: The Art of Selling Lies, premiered at Hot Docs 2019.

Writer

Larry Weinstein

Cast

Keri-Lynn Wilson, Ludwig van Beethoven

Producers

Liam Romalis, Jason Charters, Bernhard Von Hülsen, Maria Willer

Genre

Documentary

Original Language

English

BUILT TO LAST – The Life & Legacy of J.C. Dumaresq

Directors Jonathan Collicott, Glenn Ingersoll
Year 2025
Run Time 106min
Genre Documentary
The BUILT TO LAST feature documentary film explores and celebrates the nineteeth century architectural heritage of
James Charles Dumaresq, through a tour of seven buildings he designed in Fredericton, New Brunswick accompanied
by his Great Grandson (Sydney) and Great Great Gandson (Dean), who are fourth and fifth generation Dumaresq
family architects based in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Directors

Jonathan Collicott, Glenn Ingersoll

Producer

Lloyd Salomone

Genre

Documentary

Original Language

English

Clairtone

Director Ron Mann
Year 2025
Run Time 73min
Genre Documentary
Acclaimed director Ron Mann delves into the captivating rise and fall of Clairtone, an audacious Canadian electronics company founded by Peter Munk and David Gilmour during the vibrant 1960s.

Director

Ron Mann

Writer

Len Blum

Genre

Documentary

Interests

Arts and Culture, History

Original Language

English

Thog’s Hamlet

Genre Documentary
The film The Tragicall Historie of HAMLET Prince of Denmarke is a documentary of the stage production Thog’s Hamlet created collectively by the music/theatre group Thog during Toronto’s creative explosion of the late 1960s and early 1970s.

In this still from Thog's Hamlet, the female Hamlet #2, played by Caroline Johnson, rides atop of The Ghost's back, played by Jim Bearden. 
 

Directors

Genre

Documentary

Original Language

English

Lost & Found

Directors Nicolina Lanni, John Choi
Year 2016
Run Time 82min
Genre Documentary, Family
After the 2011 Japanese tsunami, citizens from the Pacific Northwest find belongings washed ashore and embark on a journey to reunite them with their owners in Japan, bridging nations through shared grief and hope.
 

Directors

Nicolina Lanni, John Choi

Writers

Nicolina Lanni, John Choi

Producer

Nicolina Lanni

Genres

Documentary, Family

Original Language

English